TMonk

what the ****?

aaronmcd

Mine either, have to do the wrap around the back of the ear thing. But I don't use em very often anyway.

aaronmcd

+1
I would lose my mind.
I don't even own a trainer.

dz_nuzz

Whenever I hear people say they don't own a trainer I wonder why I still live where I do.....

hubcyclist

The charming local accents?

TheKillerPenguin

"But the seasons build character" is what we're supposed to say.

TMonk

Screw character, Ill take training outside

globecanvas

I despise the trainer, like any red-blooded American who is not a sociopath or from New Jersey. Since the temperatures this February have been completely ridiculous, the trainer was starting to think it was better than me, so I had to assert my dominance by crushing its spirit with a 5+ hour ride.

Plus, Grumpy did it last week, and why should he have all the fun.

coolcamaro12

My buddy regularly is doing 4+ hour trainer rides...I don't know how he manages it. 2 hours and I have had enough.

TMonk

Geez Louise, you weren't kidding.

gsteinb

I've said this a million times, but few of you guys listen These are the difference



I couldn't last an hour on a rear wheel trainer, and I had a computrainer.

ShutUpLegs

Toady is the first time I will be able to ride outside in 3.5 weeks!! I feel like a kid in a candy store! Although it is still only going to be 24 degrees, the sun is at least shining!

beatlebee 

I can ride outside everyday all year but I prefer the rollers for my interval workouts.

bmcphx

I just don't get it, I mean I like bikes because much outdoors, many fresh air. I rode in the trainer once and decided if that's what I had to do to ride a bike I would just go back to being fat and find a different hobby. Seriously, it was that bad to me.

gsteinb

ok.

globecanvas

Didn't @shovelhd get a pair of those fancy rollers and not like them? I might be misremembering.



I watched the first 5 episodes of Bosch. Good trainer fare.

Wylde06

I think part of it is location. If I lived somewhere where it didnt get to -15...like somewhere far South or West, I probably wouldnt use the trainer nearly as much. In the meantime though, its -9 this morning so I will be on the trainer today

globecanvas

Me too. I hate the trainer just as much as you do. But racing is all about comparative advantage. Guys like gsteinb and TheKillerPenguin who have been embracing the trainer for months while everyone else is the northeast is moaning and procrastinating will come into the season with a huge advantage, and everyone else will be playing catch-up.

shovelhd

I liked them. They were the best rollers I have ever ridden. I just decided that I get a better workout on the KK. This is not to say that most everyone else cannot. It just didn't work for me.

shovelhd

This isn't always the case in the Masters fields. There will be a greater range of fitness in the early races, which will be gone by May. On the flip side are the guys who do training camps in January and February.

TheKillerPenguin

That would be the goal. As much as I hate the cold weather, like gsteinb, shutuplegs, dz_nuzz, and a few others I am embracing it for the competitive advantage it yields. That most people consider all the trainer time crazy is a good thing.

gsteinb

hey I may have missed this…do you guys prefer where you live?

beatlebee 

Oh, did you want to know it's going to be 72 here today?

shovelhd

I will move when I retire in about 8 years. Where? I don't know.

TheKillerPenguin

Woostuh?